Freeman's | Hindman: Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln, 6441, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2025 - May 21, 2025
Page Size: 144 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 [RELYEA, Peter

Authorizing the transport of Lincoln's body for the New York City Funeral, 24 April 1865.

1865 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,840.00
127 CATON, John Dean

Death of Lincoln. Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Illinois, 1865

1865 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,840.00
128

Nashville Daily Press Extra. 27 April 1865. John Wilkes Booth shot and killed.

1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,560.00
129 OGLESBY, Richard J.

Printed Broadside announcing the establishment of the Lincoln National Monument Association, 26 April 1865.

1865 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,408.00
130

Time table for the special train, conveying the funeral cortege with the remains of the late President. 2 May 1865.

1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,760.00
131 CORBETT, Thomas H.

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]
Autograph letter, signed ("Boston Corbett") to "Brother Eddy." Washington, D.C., 13 May 1865.

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,440.00
132

A travertine marble fragment from the receiving vault which contained Lincoln's remains at Oak Ridge Cemetery, 4 May to 21 December 1865.

1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
133

Military commission pass to the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, ca. May-June 1865.

1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,840.00
134 HOLT, Joseph

Autograph letter, signed ("J. Holt") to former assistant John A. Bingham. Washington, D.C., 8 August 1888.

1888 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 640.00
135 ARNOLD, Samuel B.

Lincoln Conspirator Samuel B. Arnold, Autograph Note, 14 March 1904.

1904 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,176.00
136

National Day of Mourning Ribbon, 1 June 1865.

1865 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,536.00
137

Lincoln mourning badge with ferrotype image, ca. 19 April 1865.

1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,560.00
138

A Limoges porcelain buff-ground tureen and cover together with 6 matching pots de creme with covers, purportedly purchased by Mary Todd Lincoln. France, ca. 1865.

ca. 1865. USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,440.00
139

Lincoln Family Locks of Hair

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 127,500.00
140 LINCOLN, Mary Todd

Mary Todd Lincoln Autograph Letter signed, to Sally Orme, 5 October 1865.

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 19,200.00
141

Mary Todd Lincoln, Archive of letters and documents related to her financial difficulties, 1865-66.

1865-66. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 28,800.00
142 HERNDON, William H. and Jesse William WEIK.

Presentation copy of Herndon's Lincoln, inscribed by the author, Jesse W. Weik.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,800.00
143

Bronze Plaque displaying "The Gettysburg Address."

ca. 1916. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 23,040.00
144 Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895),

marble sculpture of Lincoln's right hand,

1869 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,320.00
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